PCMCIA by any other name

On Sat, 21 Apr 2012, Mouse wrote: PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card Industry Association) became People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms. So, they changed their usable unique name to PC-Card, so that there could be almost infinite confusion with every other product in the world. Such as "Printed Circuit Card" (what is the difference between a "board" and a "card"?) "personal Computer Card" (such as MDA, MDP, CGA, EGA, VGA, PGA, FDC, HDC, etc.) Thus shifting the problem from a unique but awkward and lacking in intrinsic meaning acronym to a meaningless and information free term that was ALSO already in wide uses for many other items, rendering the term unsuitable for any kind of use at all. But, it's nothing new. what is a "COM" file? CPM? "SIM"? Kids will feel free to misappropriate names for items using valid and/or significant names from anything that preceeded their coming into the field, simply because those names have little or no significance to THEM, and they have no respect for anybody who was already in the field before they arrived. ("Steve Jobs invented personal computers (back before the dawn of time - Wozniak worked for him to implement Jobs' ideas), SCSI, 3(SIC) inch disks, Lazer(SIC) printers, computer graphics, GUI, mice, music players, telephones, and tablets! We wouldn't have ANY of those things without him!") You MUST get them off of your lawn! Cane them! -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com